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Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success

Harvard Business Review

Huawei’s revenue from overseas markets exceeded that from the Chinese market for the first time in 2005. This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” billion and net profits of $4.49 billion (both in U.S. These, too, have helped acquire useful knowledge.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. In their marketing, accounting and auditing firms claim to be full-service business advisors, in order to get business. Team empowerment suffers.